Artist: Controlled Bleeding
Genre(s):
Retro
New Age
Discography:
Songs From The Ashes
Year: 1998
Tracks: 16
The Drowning
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Songs From The Vault
Year: 1994
Tracks: 14
Songs From The Drain
Year: 1994
Tracks: 15
Buried Blessings (1988 - 90)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 18
From the group's inception in the mid-'70s onward, the New York-based Controlled Bleeding remained ane of the about prolific and unpredictable American industrial bands, exploring the extremes of both unbridled sonic madness and free-floating ambient dub.
Light-emitting diode by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Paul Lemos, a senior high English instructor by day, Controlled Bleeding released their debut EP, Wall of China Love Letter, in 1979; a series of abrasive cassettes followed ahead the radical issued its first uncut exertion, Knees and Bones, in 1983.
Following the typically aggressive Body Samples in 1984, the 1985 release Between Tides establish the radical (consisting of Lemos, drummer Joe Papa and keyboardist Chris Moriarty) branching out into more serene, atmospheric act; the movement continued on Head Crack and Curd (both 1986), and by 1987's Centre, the first Controlled Bleeding LP issued in their home nation, the music had become virtually implemental, peppered with jazz and regular classical elements.
As the group's appetence for change grew, so did its interest in melody, as evidenced by the track "Rings of Fire" from 1989's Songs From the Grinding Wall EP; however, the same record's lead abridge, "Crack the Body," proved that Controlled Bleeding's fascination with industrial noise had not dimmed. Similarly, 1990's full-length, Trudge, covers a great deal of territory, including a stab at techno on "Crimes of the Body."
Hog Floor, issued in 1991, collects remixes, rarities, and unreleased music dating back to Knees and Bones. As Controlled Bleeding continued to mutate some iI decades afterwards the band's origin, the mid-'90s establish them focusing on ambient styles; Inanition, released in 1996, is a two-disc plant in this vein. The full-length album Our Journey's End followed in July of 2000.
